(1) As a person with 24/7 security to protect my family, I'm highly sympathetic to Musk's attempt to quash doxxing BUT
(2) Doxxing typically refers to giving people's real-time location, not speculating about publicly available flight information, as @esaagar points out.
(2) Doxxing typically refers to giving people's real-time location, not speculating about publicly available flight information, as @esaagar points out.
(3) Musk’s refusal to give in to the false distinction between the “special class” of self-appointed Journalismers™ and everyone else is good and correct. Just because you call yourself a journalist doesn’t mean that different standards apply to you than the normies.
(4) Also, the Journalismers™ who spent literally years shouting “speech is violence” and calling for bans don’t have a leg to stand on right now. Watching them melt down after experiencing what their opponents experienced for years while they cheered is indeed schadenfreude.
(5) So, in short, I’m against the Twitter suspensions, even for garbage pseudoreporters like Rupar, at least based on posting links to publicly available flight info. At the same time, their caterwauling now is hilarious given their enthusiasm for opaque Twitter censorship.
(6) One more thought: I'm seeing conflicting reports on just how much Musk does to mask his flight activities. If we define doxxing as attempting to uncover locational movements that we take action to be kept private, (2) stops applying. If doxxing means anything, it means that.
See, e.g., here:
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1603747484747956224
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